I refer to last week’s letter from Stephen Fitzgerald of Somerset Out of the EU.

Mrs May, (the professional pedestrian currently wandering around Italy) appears to be hopelessly in thrall to her (unelected) pro-Brussels advisor.

The referendum result, as in any election, was the sum of each individual’s decision on where to place their X. That one mark represents a great many things to every voter in the booth.

In the case of Brexit, and before considering anything else, the basic question is simply “Do you wish to be ruled by an unelected, unaccountable, corrupt bureaucracy based in Brussels?” Yes or no.

That has to be the fundamental starting point, and everything else stems from there.

Anyone in any doubt, especially in view of the oafish tactics as demonstrated by Mr Juncker and his chums, must be appalled by the contemptuous attitude and undisguised malice clearly shown by those people towards all of us.

Shamefully, those same people are enthusiastically aided and abetted by certain MPs and members of that other unelected, unaccountable, corrupt plutocracy. Their behaviour is at best grotesquely unpatriotic, at worst it is tantamount to high treason.

Have they really any idea of the implications of the Lisbon Treaty, the Treaty of Rome or the Acquis Communautaire? Did John Major and those other Maastricht supporters actually read and understand the ramifications thereof? If so, they certainly didn’t want us to know about it.

This country is now in a most parlous state due to indecision, duplicity, incompetence and treachery.

We have to send an urgent powerful message to our so-called negotiators that they show some true pride, purpose, patriotism and passion, or face the serious consequences.

They must get on with it and deliver the unambiguous result for which we voted in 2016.

Ivor Jones, Doverhay, Porlock.

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